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Issue Highlights
- Leaving Merck: Bikini Girl Made Me Do It
- Jake Gyllenhaal to Play Jamie Reidy in “Hard Sell” Film
- How Lean is Your Facility? 2009 OpEx Survey Data  

Protecting Your Lean Six Sigma Projects From the “OpEx Black Hole”
Lean Six Sigma experts weigh in on results of our 2009 OpEx survey, and on the main reasons why so many pharma OpEx projects aren’t sustainable and encounter “black holes,” or voids created by weak leadership from the top, inefficiency at the bottom and ineffectiveness in the middle.

Leveraging Inventory Turns to Improve Your Bottom Line
Pharma still ranks at the very bottom, compared to other industries, in its Leanness. Inventory turns can be a useful Lean metric, and help focus OpEx efforts, says Robert E. Spector, Principal of Tunnell Consulting.

Singapore Site Leader Stella Eccles on the Greening of Pfizer
Pfizer’s Process Development Centre has become a focal point of the company’s ongoing efforts to green its processes. Site leader Stella Eccles about work to revamp the process of making gabapentin (Neurontin) to keep it viable.

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Moving from Merck to YouTube: Bikini Girl Made Me Do It

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A Day in the Life . . . of a Pfizer Lube Tech

Gyllenhaal and Hathaway to star in film of Reidy’s Hard Sell

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